One App, Every Touchpoint — How FGCU Uses Guidebook to Power the Full Student Journey Jun 9th
From the first campus visit to move-in day and beyond, every interaction shapes whether a student chooses your school and whether they stay.
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For admissions & recruitment teams

Self-guided campus tours that never close.

Let prospective students and visitors tour your campus 24/7, with a branded, personalized, guided experience even when your team isn't there. In- app tours work remotely too, so out of state students can get a sense of your campus before committing to a visit.

No more families missing out because they arrived late, or slots filled up too fast.

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Trusted by leading universities to power their campus visits

Why traditional campus tours are losing prospects

Groups tours without personalisation can often skip past things that matter the most to students. Not every tour goes inside every building or residence hall - leaving students with questions still about how they could fit in

Solve the wayfinding problem

Sprawling campuses leave families lost, wandering between buildings. In-app interactive maps and guided directions means noone gets lost, and everyone gets to see what is important to them.

Peronalized tours, at scale

Self-guided tours lets every student pick their own path and chose their adventure. Thousands of student visitors can have unique experiences relevant to their major, faculty, and club or athletic interests.

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A campus tour that is always open.

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”
Steven Kelly
The University of Calgary

Key features designed for visit teams in higher education

The campus tour choice of leading American universities

Guidebook powers self-guided tours at over 75% of the top U.S. colleges. From the University of Florida's open house, to Rutgers' self-guided tour app, the visit teams driving the most applications trust Guidebook to make the first impression.

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24/7

campus tours always available in-app

40K+

printed programs replaced at Manchester

75%

top U.S. colleges

A campus tour that never closes.

Drop-in self-guided on a Saturday. Scheduled visit days mid-week. Pre-visit virtual tours for out of state students. Post-visit follow-up before they leave town. Guidebook gives visit teams one app for every kind of tour, with the data to prove what actually moved them.

Every building, on a real campus map

Welcome center. Library. Dining hall. Engineering quad. Every stop on the tour pinned to the actual campus, with audio narration, photo galleries, and turn-by-turn directions. Families wander with intent, not lost across a sprawling campus.

From "get ready" to "stay close"

Get ready: pre-visit virtual tour, parking info, and what to bring. On campus: the self-guided tour itself, drop-in or scheduled, with audio and FAQs. Stay close: post-visit application nudges, deposit-deadline reminders, scholarship deadlines. The visit doesn't end at the parking lot.

Track attention

Insightful metrics tell you which part of the campus visit students enjoyed, and which shouldn't be repeated next year.

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Leading visit teams partner with Guidebook

Chapman University

Chapman University

Chapman University

When Chapman University wanted a better way to welcome prospective students, they relied on Guidebook's platform to build an app that allows students to explore campus without relying on a tour guide.

Inside the app, students can:
- Explore Chapman's beautiful Orange, California campus at their own pace.
- Dive into Chapman’s academic programs.
- Connect with current students to get a feel for campus life.

It’s a warm, modern introduction to Chapman that leaves a lasting impression on today's tech-savvy students.
Chapman University

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Rutgers University, New Brunswick

Rutgers uses Guidebook to help students navigate around campus using the Rutgers self-guided tour app built with Guidebook.

View tours of different campuses and residence halls
Learn about various housing options
Connect with student tour guides
Rutgers University, New Brunswick

The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester

The University of Manchester

Students are welcomed to Manchester’s campus with a wonderfully detailed Tour Guide App.

Open Day information for prospective students
Easy­-to­-follow schedules for freshmen, transfers and parents
Self-guided tours for easy campus navigation
The University of Manchester

What EDU teams have to say

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden

University of Memphis

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”

Steven Kelly

University of Calgary

“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with constant changes.”

Open Days Team

University of Manchester

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant

University of Edinburgh

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”

Steven Kelly

University of Calgary

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant

University of Edinburgh

“When we started we yielded 40%. After implementing Guidebook our yield grew to 82%. We believe Guidebook had a strong impact on that growth.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with constant changes.”

Open Days Team

University of Manchester

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden

University of Memphis

“With Guidebook, we use an audio tour guide to help prospective students navigate campus, learn more about university offerings, and feel part of the campus community - even if they’re unable to visit in person.”

Steven Kelly

University of Calgary

“We went from 200 hours and 5 staff members to just 25 hours and 1 person - compared with creating a website and printed programs.”

Kristin Sargeant

University of Edinburgh

“When we started we yielded 40%. After implementing Guidebook our yield grew to 82%. We believe Guidebook had a strong impact on that growth.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“Our app costs 29% less than printing, and our student yield increased by 105% once we began using Guidebook.”

Andrea Crilly

Indiana Tech

“With schedules frequently changing, we needed a flexible solution to accommodate updates in real time. The team would print 40,000 programs to hand out at the events, which were costly, bad for the environment, and once printed, couldn’t be updated with constant changes.”

Open Days Team

University of Manchester

“With Guidebook, administrators are able to create the app themselves without any IT support and non-technical content creators can easily upload and publish content.”

Meredith Aden

University of Memphis

The campus tour app that helps students decide where to go

A campus tour app that helps to showcase your campus, and allows students to see how they fit in. Maps, audio, FAQs, and the next step to apply in one place.

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FAQs

[faq] Q: How does Guidebook support self-guided campus tours? A: Guidebook lets visit teams create branded mobile tours with maps, stops, photos, audio or written content, FAQs, schedules, and next steps. Families can explore campus when your visitor center is closed or when a guided slot is full. Q: Can Guidebook personalize campus tours by student interest? A: Yes. Visit teams can build different routes for majors, athletics, residence life, accessibility needs, families, transfer students, or admitted students. Every visitor can see the version of campus that helps them picture themselves there. Q: How does Guidebook help families who arrive outside scheduled tour times? A: Families can still open the app, find parking, start a self-guided route, follow maps, read stop content, and get next-step admissions information. A Saturday visit does not have to become a missed opportunity just because the office is closed. Q: Can campus tours connect to Open House and Admitted Student Day? A: Yes. A tour can live in the same Guidebook app as Open House, Preview Day, Admitted Student Day, and follow-up content. That gives admissions teams a more connected view of the student journey instead of treating the tour as a one-off moment. Q: What can admissions teams learn from campus tour engagement? A: Teams can look at tour starts, completed stops, dwell time, map taps, saved locations, content views, and clicks to apply or book a meeting. That shows which parts of campus are doing the most persuasive work. Q: Is Guidebook virtual campus tour software? A: Guidebook can support virtual and self-guided content, but its strength is the mobile visit experience: branded routes, real campus maps, live event content, and follow-up actions that help a prospect move from visit to application or deposit. [/faq]
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